Community Minded

M&T BANK partners with UMMC to keep Baltimore strong

It takes a village to keep a community
going strong, which no one knows
better than M&T Bank. Established in
1856, the company continues to
maintain a community focus, despite
its standing as one of the 20 largest
US headquartered commercial bank
holding corporations. In the greater
Baltimore/Chesapeake region alone,
M&T has donated more than $30
million to organizations that provide
indispensable programs and services,
including UMMC.

“At our core, we’re a community bank,” says August “Augie” Chiasera,
a senior vice president at M&T Bank
Corp. and president of the bank’s
greater Baltimore/Chesapeake region.
“And when you’re a community
bank, you take care of the cities and
businesses where you live and work.”

This philosophy has inspired M&T
to support a wide variety of
programs, from the basic—the bank
recently bought 80 new bikes for
Baltimore’s Ride Around program—
to the very broad, including UMMC
initiatives that save lives all across
the region and well beyond. For
example, the bank has made
significant philanthropic
contributions to the top-ranked
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma
Center Critical Care Tower and the
campaign to construct a cutting-edge
new neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU) at University of Maryland
Children’s Hospital.

“I think we’re very like-minded in
terms of our enthusiasm for the region
overall,” says Mr. Chiasera, referring to
the synergies between M&T and UMMC.
“The medical center has made so
many investments and improvements,
you can’t help but get excited about
what they’re doing—it’s nothing short
of remarkable.”

“We fundamentally believe that
when Baltimore succeeds, we all
succeed,” he says. “So it’s wonderful
to see other big institutions like
UMMC committing to this
community in ways that
allow it to truly thrive.”